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Realist Figurative Prints

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Leap Fail Leap
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mixed media Photo Etching, Aquatint and Drypoint Printed on Arches Cover titled Leap Fail Leap, created by the artistic collaboration of Robert Flemming and Mizin Shin. ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint

Never have so many owed so much to so few, original Winston Churchill poster
Located in London, GB
Original Winston Churchill Poster Lithograph 51 x 40 cm c.1940-1945 "Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few." ...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Le Vieux Manuscrits, Coree-Seoul
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fascinating artwork titled Le Vieux manusrits (old writings Seoul Korea) by Paul Jacoulet. (French-Japanese 1896-1960) finely crafted with lovely graduating background color blue to light green. Depicts a figure seated on a pink pillow wearing a Korean hat...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

A View from Brazen Nose (Brasenose), Oxford (1808), engraving by Richard Dighton
Located in London, GB
Richard Dighton (1795-1880) A View from Brazen Nose College (1808) Hand coloured engraving 28 x 22 cm Richard Dighton (1795–1880) was a prominent English artist and caricaturist, ...
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Early 1800s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

A View from Merton College, Oxford (1808), engraving by Richard Dighton
Located in London, GB
Richard Dighton (1795-1880) A View from Merton College (1808) Hand coloured engraving 28 x 22 cm Richard Dighton (1795–1880) was a prominent English artist and caricaturist, best ...
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Early 1800s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

A View from St John's College, Cambridge (1809), engraving by Richard Dighton
Located in London, GB
Richard Dighton (1795-1880) A View from St John's College (1809) Hand coloured engraving 28 x 22 cm Richard Dighton (1795–1880) was a prominent English artist and caricaturist, be...
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Early 1800s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

The Hopes of the Family, University of Cambridge engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton The Hopes of the Family Hand coloured engraving 26 x 36 cm c.1790 This engraving, titled "The Hopes of the Family – An Admission at the University", is satirical work by William Bunbury. The scene portrays a young man being presented for admission to the University of Cambridge. Although the title suggests that the boy is expected to achieve great things, his appearance and and general demeanour hint at incompetence or lack of enthusiasm, thus introducing an ironic paradox. This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
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1790s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Rue Moufftard, Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
Lithograph in brown ink on lightweight, cream laid Japon paper with a deckle edge, 10 3/4 x 17 inches (274 x 432 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 9/35 in pencil in the lower ma...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Lithograph

Agony - The architecture of decay -
Located in Berlin, DE
Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]". - minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin - The architecture of decay - About the artwork Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay. The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching, Paper

Arman - Accumulations - Original Signed Etching
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Arman - Accumulations - Original Signed Etching Title: Accumulations Signed Dimensions: 57 x 38 cm 1980s Arman Armand Pierre Fernandez was ...
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1990s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Illusie
Located in Middletown, NY
Circa 1960. Etching and engraving on cream laid paper, 5 3/4 x 4 inches (141 x 102 mm), margins. Scattered light areas of spotty discoloration in the margins, minor mat tone. Four mi...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Brandenburger Tor, Berlin (Brandenburg Gate, Berlin)". c1930 is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 13 x 16.5 inches, framed size is 23.75 x 27 inches. Custom framed in a wooden ornate gold frame, white beige matting and green color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the artwork is very slightly toned around the plate mark, barely visible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes.[1] He died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of the coloured etching. Before this, prints were usually hand-coloured with the colour being applied in a casual, haphazard manner. Kasimir would first create a sketch usually in pastel, he then transferred the design on as many as four to six plates, printing one after the other and applying the colour on the plate, all done by hand. Kasimir is mainly famous for his etchings, but he also produced some oil painting, as well as some pastels. One of his favourite genres was the landscape, or veduta. He demonstrated a predisposition street scenes, and tourist landmarks. He depicted places from all over Europe, mainly Italy, Austria, and Germany. He also travelled to the United States to do a series of etchings of famous sights ranging from urban landmarks such as New York City skyscrapers, to natural wonders like Yosemite Valley. Luigi Kasimir’s etchings...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

'Psychopathic Ward' — Socially-Conscious Realism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Nudes in bathtub, signed lithograph edition of only 19 legendary realist artist
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein Untitled Nudes in bathtub, ca. 1971 Lithograph on paper with Deckled Edges Numbered from the limited edition of only 19. Unframed Hand signed in graphite pencil and...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Bluestocking’s Husband
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-79), The Bluestocking’s Husband, plate 46 from the series Moeurs Conjugales, published in 1842 in Le Charivari, and in the Album Moeurs Conjugales in 1843; an im...
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1840s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

The Grand Celebrites of France
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Les Grandes Celebrites de la France, lithograph, 1939, plate 2 from the series Les Saltimbanques, from La Caricature Provisoire (also published later in Le Charivari, 1843). Reference: Daumier Register 620, second state (of 5). With lettering, and the initials (in the plate lower left). Printed on a wove paper. In good condition (formerly folded across the middle, now flattened) , 11 1/2 x 8 7/8, the sheet 13 1/8 x 10 inches. A very good impression. An impression of Les Grande Celebrites de la France was shown in the Metropolitan Museum's show Seurat's Circus Sideshow...
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1830s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

An Inland View; in Atooi ( Hawaii ) 1784 Captain Cook engraving by John Webber
Located in Paonia, CO
An Inland View in Atooi ( Hawaii ) is from the 1784 First Edition Atlas Accompanying Capt. James Cook and King; Third and Final Voyage of Captain James Cook. This engraving depicts ...
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1780s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

Dimanche en Bretagne
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Dimanche en Bretagne, etching, 1939, signed in pencil lower left and inscribed “ep d’artite” lower right. Reference: Laboureur 543, second state (of...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

SHOWER PROFILE (GOLD)
Located in Aventura, FL
Silkscreen on canvas with diamond dust. Hand signed, dated, and numbered on verso by Carole A Feuerman. Edition of 25. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Carole A. Feuerman (American, born 1945) is a Hyper-Realist sculptor. Along with artists like Duane Hanson...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints

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Canvas, Screen

Sharbat Gula, Peshawar, Pakistan (Hand signed)
Located in New York, NY
Steve McCurry Sharbat Gula, Peshawar, Pakistan (Hand signed), 2002 Offset lithograph poster (hand signed by Steve McCurry) Boldly signed in black marker by Steve McCurry on the front...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints

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Offset

Saved from Drowning
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), [Saved from Drowning], lithograph, plate 7 from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens, a sur blanc impression from the album, with...
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1840s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Un Homme a La Mer
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Un Homme a La Mer lithograph, 1843, [with initials in the plate]. Reference: Daumier Register 1036, plate number 14 from the series Les Canotiers...
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1840s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

National Palace Mexico City, Persecution of the Indian, Revolution, Independence
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera "National Palace Mexico City, Central Stairway" (Persecution of the Indian, Revolution, Independence) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Hand-Signed by the Artist Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves" 1653, is an etching on paper After Rembrandt Van Rijn, 1606-1669, plate engraved By French renown engraver Charles Arma...
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17th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Une Navigation Difficile
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), Une Navigation Difficile, lithograph, 1843, plate 6 from the series Les Canotiers Parisiens [with the addresses, text, and Daumier’s initials in the plate...
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1840s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

La Fortune Fait Oblier Les Amis
Located in New York, NY
Honore Daumier (1808-1879), La Fortune Fait Oblier Les Amis, lithograph, from the series Caricaturana, plate 31, 1838. Daumier Register 385, third state (of...
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1830s Realist Figurative Prints

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Color, Lithograph

Old Violinist - Late 19th Century Figurative Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed late 19th century chromo-lithograph portrait of a violinist street musician by John George Brown (British, 1831-1913). Many of Brown’s paintings were reproduced in lithography (Chromo-lithograpy), as is the case with the one offered here. Presented in a rustic antique Oak wood frame with giltwood fillet. Image, 15.63"H x 10.63"W. John George Brown was a British citizen and an American painter born in Durham, England. His parents apprenticed him to the career of glass worker at the age of fourteen, in an attempt to dissuade him from pursuing painting. He studied nights at the School of Design in Newcastle-on-Tyne while working as a glass cutter there between 1849 and 1852, and evenings at the Trustees Academy in Edinburgh while working at the Holyrood Glass Works between 1852 ad 1853. After moving to New York City in 1853, he studied with Thomas Seir Cummings at the National Academy of Design where he was elected a National Academician in 1861. Brown was the Academy’s vice-president from 1899 to 1904. Around 1855, he worked for the owner of the Brooklyn Glass Company, and later he married the daughter of his employer. His father-in-law encouraged his artistic abilities, supporting him financially, letting Brown pursue painting full-time. In 1866, he became one of the charter members of the Water-Color Society, of which he was president from 1887 to 1904. Brown became famous for his depictions of street urchins found of the streets of New York (bootblacks, street musicians, posy sellers, newsboys, etc.). Brown’s art is best characterized as British genre painting...
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1870s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

American Indian Navajo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "American Indian, Navajo" is a offset lithograph on paper by noted Brazilan artist Ozz Franca, 1928-1991. The image size is 21 x 14.75 inches, framed size is 31.25 x 27 inches. Custom framed in a wooden brown/grey frame, with lith purple matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Born October 2, 1928, França (pronounced FRON-suh) grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and from an early age showed talent as an artist, as well as exceptional prowess as a competitive swimmer. At 14 he won first prize at the annual Spring Salon Art Competition. At 15, he qualified for the Brazilian Olympic Swimming Team. With two amazing talents, França was unsure what he should do with his life. Fate stepped in, and the Olympic Games were canceled the year França was to compete due to the outbreak of World War II. At that point, he decided to devote his life to art. He held his first one-man show at the age of 18. Following what he would later say was the best advice anyone ever gave him, França came to the U.S, to accept a scholarship in Utah. A year later, he moved to Hollywood and began doing movie illustration for Walt Disney. His projects included Lady and the Tramp and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. He moonlighted as a swimmer when movie parts were available. França painted many subjects, but he is best known for his esoteric images of Native American women. França's art enters the world of fantasy and dreams, where the spiritual meets the sensual. His works, with their floating imagery and airy, muted colors, evoke an aura of mystery. França said he always painted his subjects, which primarily were women, either in profile, looking toward the edge of the painting, or looking over her shoulder, "so that anyone could walk into it." Joan Lee, print marketing professional, said that Ozz saw the spirituality and quiet dignity of Native American men and women. "there's a romance surrounding Native Americans that people appreciate seeing," said Lee. Ozz França died in 1991. Ozz Franca’s work is held in the collections of numerous celebrity, including: Jacqueline Onassis Lyndon B. Johnson Patty Duke Jerry Lewis Kim Novak Burt Lancaster Gig Young Tom Bradley Sammy Davis, Jr. Ronald Reagan Red Skelton...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

College Fun at the University of Cambridge, engraving by William Bunbury
Located in London, GB
William Bunbury, engraved by James Bretherton College Fun or Quizzing the Proctor Hand coloured engraving 27 x 34 cm c.1790 In this playful scene, a proctor--garnering a powdered wig and academic dress--is reading a public proclamation regarding a 'general fast.' Unbeknownst to him, a mischievous student is pinning a satirical note on his back. The note mocks the proctor's authority, reading, "From all Pride, Vanity, Glory and Hypocrisy, Good Lord Deliver us." Meanwhile, two other students, dressed in academic gowns and mortarboards, stand to the left, laughing and gesturing at the proctor, clearly enjoying the other student's prank. This caricatural scene dates from the late 18th century, a period when William Bunbury, alongside James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, and Isaac Cruikshank...
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1790s Realist Figurative Prints

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Engraving

STANDING NUDE Signed Lithograph, Realist Portrait Young Woman, Figure Drawing
Located in Union City, NJ
STANDING NUDE an original hand drawn lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Printed on archival Arches paper 100%...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

QUIETUDE - YELLOW THROATED WARBLER
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the artist: A wildlife painter whose work often has sparrows, Michael Dumas...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Sam Colburn Carmel Artist Portrait, Signed Limited Edition Realist Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed and realistic portrait lithograph of the modernist watercolor artist Sam Colburn (American, 1909-1993) by Jack Coughlin (American, b. 193...
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1980s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Ink, Lithograph

Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Michigan Avenue, Chicago" 1930 is a colors etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed at the lower center in pencil by the artist. The plate ...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Death as a servant / - Concise congeniality -
Located in Berlin, DE
Alfred Rethel after (1816 Diepenbenden - 1859 Düsseldorf), Death as a servant, around 1920. Color woodcut by Oskar Bangemann after a drawing by Rethel created around 1845 on handmade...
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1910s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper

Plage de Villerville
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1856. Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (124 x 245 mm), full margins. In good condition with light uniform age tone. Fourth s...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Drypoint, Etching

Andries Stilte oversized Towel Wall Hanging (limited edition sold out) 70" x 60"
Located in New York, NY
Kehinde Wiley Andries Stilte oversized beach towel, 2008 Silkscreen on 100% Cotton Large Beach Towel or hanging tapestry 70 × 60 inches Edition of 2000 In original packaging with ta...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Prints

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Cotton, Mixed Media, Screen

TAA Trans-Australia Airlines original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TAA Trans Australia Airlines vintage travel poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. TAA Airlines was started in 1946 and was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. In 1...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Offset

"Los Angeles II" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Las Angeles II" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab pape...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Pigment

Art Forms in Nature (Plate 79 - Basiliscus) — 1899 Celebration of Nature
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Ernst Haeckel, 'Art Forms in Nature' (Plate 79 - Basiliscus), offset lithograph, 1899. Signed and titled in typeset, upper left. Titled 'Tafel 79 — Basi...
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1890s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Foul Rope (Left)' — Early American Southwest Rodeo
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
William Robinson Leigh, 'Foul Rope (Left)', etching, c. 1920, edition unknown but small. Signed in pencil and signed in the plate, lower left. A superb, richly-inked impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove Umbria paper, the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches); slight toning at the sheet edges, otherwise in excellent condition. Very scarce. Archivally matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 14 7/8 x 11 15/16 inches (378 x 303 mm); sheet size 20 3/8 x 15 3/8 inches (518 x 391 mm). ABOUT THE ARTIST Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia, on a plantation a year after the Civil War and raised in Baltimore, William Robinson Leigh (1866 - 1955) became one of the foremost painters of the American West. His career spanning some seventy-five years, Leigh created some of the most iconic depictions of the Western landscape, with admirers referring to him as ‘The Sagebrush Rembrandt.’ The son of impoverished Southern aristocrats, Leigh received his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell at the Maryland Institute, where he was regarded as the best student in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, Leigh began working as a magazine illustrator for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine in New York City. He also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. Leigh's trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he agreed to paint the Grand Canyon with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting, which led to more commissions and an extensive painting trip through Arizona and New Mexico. These travels inspired him to paint western subjects for the next 50 years, and his primary interests were the Hopi and Navajo Indians. In 1910, he traveled to Wyoming, where he painted in Yellowstone Park and created sketches, many of which he later converted into large canvases such as ‘Lower Falls of the Yellowstone’ (1915) and ‘Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone’ (1911). In 1926, he traveled to Africa at the invitation of Carl Akeley for the American Museum of Natural History, and from this experience, wrote and illustrated 'Frontiers of Enchantment: An Artist's Adventures in Africa'. In 1933, he wrote and illustrated 'The Western Pony'. His adventures were chronicled in several popular magazines, including Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Colliers. For many years, Grand Central Art Galleries at the Biltmore Hotel handled his work exclusively in New York. In 1953, Leigh was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design and became a full Academician in 1955. In March 1999, the Historical Center of Cody, Wyoming, held an exhibition of his field sketches and finished works depicting his experiences near Cody early in the century. Between 1910 and 1921, when he often painted in the Carter Mountain vicinity, these years were considered pivotal to his artistic development and devotion to the Western landscape. Leigh's work is held in many museum collections of American Western art...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

SERENA SUITE
Located in Aventura, FL
Suite of 4 prints. Each hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Each print measures 33.5 x 24 inches. Hand numbered TP 3/5 (there was a manin edition of 30 plus 10 artist'...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen

Schubert's Birthplace, Vienna, Austria
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Schubert's Birthplace, Vienna, Austria" c.1925 is a color etching on Wove paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the a...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Mining for National Savings, original vintage poster by Charles Beardsworth
Located in London, GB
Charles Benjamin Beardsworth Mining for National Savings -- Back your efforts with national savings for future prosperity Lithograph 75 x 50 cm This poster was a British propagand...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Parisian Café Eiffel Tower Paris France Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Parisian Café Eiffel Tower Paris France Limited Edition Print by British Artist. A high quality limited edition print of Angela's European Series, incorporating the Eiffel Tower - on...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Printer's Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Digital

Convoy Your Country To Victory, WW2 propaganda poster by Rowland Hilder
Located in London, GB
Rowland Hilder Convoy Your Country To Victory Lithograph 75 x 51 cm This poster was a British propaganda piece issued during World War II by the National Savings Committee. It was ...
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1940s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

'Venice, Maria della Salute' — Serenissima Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Anton Schutz, 'Venice, Maria della Salute', etching, c. 1930. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, with skillfully wiped plate tone, on cream wove paper, ...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

WNEW Frank Sinatra
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 45 x 29.5 inches ( 114.3 x 74.93 cm ) Image Size: 41.75 x 26.75 inches ( 106.045 x 67.945 cm ) Framed: No Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Offset

Valentino Couture Fashion Illustration Figurative Watercolor Geclee Print
Located in Norwalk, CT
Limited Edition Geclee Print 1 of 50 Edition, on Watercolor Paper , hand-embellished by watercolor. The size of geclee print is 11"X14" . Size with the white matt is 20″X16″. Frame ...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Watercolor

Woodcut Self Portrait (unique) on light green paper
Located in New York, NY
Jim Dine woodcut printed in black ink on handmade, light green paper. This unique proof was printed by the artist on his kitchen table in London. Carved into a swatch of black, the a...
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1970s Realist Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Christmas - original lithograph (1897-1898)
Located in Paris, IDF
Charles LEANDRE (1862 - 1934) Christmas, 1897 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithograph...
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1890s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Woman With Tulip Bowl
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Woman With Tulip Bowl" 1981 (State I) is an original lithograph on heavy paper by renowned Navajo artist Rudolph Carl (R.C.) Gorman, 1932-20...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph, Paper

"Chester Street" By Ed Fairburn, Limited Edition Poster Print, Portrait of Woman
Located in Denver, CO
"Chester Street" is a limited edition poster print by the acclaimed UK artist Ed Fairburn. This captivating piece is reproduced onto 100% 290gsm cotton rag premium archival Moab pape...
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2010s Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Archival Pigment

CROWS BY THE WOODS
Located in Aventura, FL
Lithograph on paper. Hand signed, titled and numbered by the artist. Edition of 350. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity is included. All reasonable o...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

Fleet Street, London
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fleet Street, London" c.1925 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 20.5 x 15 inches, framed size is 34 x 28 inches. Custom framed in the wooden original brown and gold distressed style frame, with light beige fabric matting and gold color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very small minor restorations, practically invisible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Seated Nude (version 1) from the portfolio Maillol: Sculpture and Lithography)
Located in New York, NY
Aristide Maillol Seated Nude (version 1) from the portfolio Aristide Maillol: Sculpture and Lithography, 1925 Lithograph on watermarked paper 12 1/2 × 19 1/2 inches Edition AP Hand-s...
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1920s Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Vienna Scene II
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Vienna Scene II, Austria" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in pen...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Etching

Hans Baluschek Lithograph "Wochenende" ( Weekend )
Located in Berlin, DE
Lithograph on firm wove paper by Hans Baluschek, Germany, 1927. The three-part cycle "Volk" is one of the most important print series of the first third of the 20th century. Signed l...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

SERENA WITH YELLOW CAP
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Prints

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Mixed Media, Archival Paper, Screen

Realist figurative prints for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Realist figurative prints available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add figurative prints created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, pink, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Luigi Kasimir, Peter Doig, Josef Eidenberger, and Adriaen Collaert. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Lithograph and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Realist figurative prints, so small editions measuring 3 inches across are also available. Prices for figurative prints made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $100 and tops out at $72,120, while the average work sells for $650.

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